Segregation and tiebout sorting
Subtitle: investigating the link between investments in public goods and neighborhood tipping
By: H. Spencer Banzhaf, Randall P. Walsh
Contributors: Walsh, Randall P., 1963-; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16057; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16057.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
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Description: "Segregation has been a recurring social concern throughout human history.  While much progress has been made to our understanding of the mechanisms driving segregation, work to date has ignored the role played by location-specific amenities.  Nonetheless, policy remedies for reducing group inequity often involve place-based investments in minority communities.  In this paper, we introduce an exogenous location-specific public good into a model of group segregation.  We characterize the equilibria of the model and derive the comparative statics of improvements to the local public goods.  We show that the dynamics of neighborhood tipping depend on the levels of public goods.  We also show that investments in low-public good communities can actually increase segregation"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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